The Beast Palace: Wars are perhaps never fair.
" Come on! Fight back, Madhubala, fight back! Chaal chalo, waada todho, dhokha do."
This one dialogue of Rishabh to a terrified pleading Maddy sums it up all. Rishabh's complete 360 degree turn to his cruel cruel self and all those traces of now-and-then warmth that were showing up for Maddy going to the nearest trashcan. Maddy suddenly has turned into a backstabber , a swindler , a deceitful adversary who didn't play fair on her own strengths to defeat him, but found a sneaky slimy way to not only bow down to him but make his precious memories a column in tattle tail newspapers.
The honest, righteous , heroic Maddy suddenly appears an A-list vamp to him. Yes, he is furious and back to his revenge-is-best-served-cold bowl but you cannot miss the sense of betrayal and pain in his voice when he utters the last portion of the above mentioned dialogue to Maddy in the hospital. Suddenly, for him, Maddy is not any different from what he is or maybe even worse? Whatever Rishabh did till date , it was in the face and always a frontal attack. But in 'his POV' what Maddy has 'apparently' done is absolute deceit and backstab. The way he stresses on words like 'dhokha' shows a definite loss of respect and even the original harsh affection for Maddy.
Strange. A man like Rishabh feeling feelings like 'backstab' and 'betrayal'. Who says there is no chance for him to go back to being permissibly human?
More than being angry and provoked by Maddy's backstab which the poor girl has not even done, he appeared 'hurt' and clearly 'betrayed' in the dining hall. Suddenly, the only person he could see in the dining hall was Maddy. He didn't care that Bittu G, his mother , Sicku and servants were around ' he pinned Maddy to the wall , grabbing her arms lest he breaks her teeth. He may have said that how she got the audacity to backstab him. But his clearly wildly agitated face seemed to look at her in disgust and hatred ' disappointed that she was Maddy, right? You are not the one who ever went low? What happened to you, biwi? Had Rishabh been just angry , he would have broken more things in the hall, made pulp out of her arms and screamed his lungs out ' but he didn't. He just promised her a life that would be a vintage hell that she has only heard of. And then, he went out, leaving Maddy in shock and perhaps numbed by this 2 minute action film.
Rishabh's complete loss of faith and trust in Maddy and this misconception seeping into his mind that Maddy is just as capable of deceiving him and hurting him like anyone else is not good news at all. The way he recollects himself and his absolute disturbia in the car ' recalling how Maddy arm-twisted him, how he said sorry whose spellings he doesn't know , and yet Maddy backstabbing him. All the disturbed emotions and anger goes into his mind machinery and comes out as a cold pie of revenge.
Maddy is totally in no-man's land right now ' she is still reeling under the shock of " What the 'fill-in-the-blanks' happened? She is walking around like a zombie , going through the replay button of Rishabh's behavior at the dining table ' she is unaware of her saasumaa trying to console her and calm her ' all she remembers is Rishabh's disgusted face and his threat that actually dried up her blood for those few minutes. And then, almost like one psychic door that opens from one mind to another in connected minds , Rishabh calls her up from the hospital.
All of Rishabh's anger , disgust , temper and wounded reactions are under his control now and he has snowballed them into a game of cold revenge of fear-files on the playstation that runs in his head. The return of the sneering smirking grin , his loving 'biwi daud ke chali aao mere paas' and his swag are not good news again. It simply means that he is back to the one-on-one mortal kombat with Maddy.
And what follows is a pure mind game ' where you make someone feel what fear actually means, what it is like to have something precious and emotional get stuck in your throat , what it is like to dance to someone's tunes when you know that the person is holding something close to you as ransom. Maddy running to the hospital like a roadrunner in 24 minutes, Rishabh scaring Maddy that he is going to stab Maalik , Rishabh sarcastically rubbing it in a shaky Maddy's face that she looks great as the deceiving backstabbing powepuff girl only and the raayeta he phailaaos in the precap by telling Maalik the truth in a twisted way.
It's a vicious circle and it is gonna go in circles and circles until the dynamics change in Rishabh and Maddy's equation. We always said that countering Rishabh with temper and aggression is suicide and its only going to worsen the beast in him. Here, Maddy is innocent but her words and actions prior to that have worked against her. Rishabh only remembers her cold threats and her rebellion , not her innocent pleading eyes and voice saying that she didn't do anything. Wo kehte hain na, ek jhooth ko 1000 baar chilla ke kaho , toh wo sacch lagtaa hai? Maddy ne bhi toh dhamkee dekar , gala phaad kar kahaa tha ki woh photos chhaap degi. So, no matter how innocent Maddy is , how do you explain it to someone like Rishabh whose trust on people is just as good as a nursery kid's ability to write all alphabets without forgetting a single one.
As for the viewers here at the forum and even the general audience ' you will be like pendulums , actually. Periodically , you will feel bad for Rishabh and then, Maddy .Sometimes you will digress towards Maddy's sorrow and sometimes towards Rishabh's grief. Even worse, if you are one of those fanatic fandoms who are stuck to Rishabh or Maddy like fevicol just because the either of the two is your favourite character. Things like ' I want Rishabh to win/ I want Maddy to win blah blah and some more blah hold no importance in here. It's a war of injured egos and broken hearts layered with passionate and intensely reactive natures. Nobody's victory is going to make you happy , just like it doesn't make Rishabh and Maddy happy as such to make pizza slices out of each-other.
Think about it.
And as I sign off, I have to mention it that I loved two instances. First, Rishabh's mother's reaction to Maddy on seeing the pictures and simply saying ' "Kyun kiya aisaa?" It highlighted from the character's POV the gravity of those pictures getting printed. Secondly , Rishabh's fake loving words to Maddy that sounded endearing nevertheless '" Agar mujhe yaad karne ke ilaawa koi aur kaam kar rahi ho, toh mutt karo. Yaadon ki insult ho jaayegi. Ab chalo, utho, aur daud ke chali aao mere paas." They were dripping with sarcasm but were lovely if you forget the war between them.
But hey, the moment that takes the cake is Rishabh telling Maddy with the knife and the apple between them that deceit and backstab suit her very much. And there , he was not being sarcastic - he said what he had felt inside.
War is war. No wars are won by fair play or even fought that way. Because whenever there is a wily will, there is always a twisted way. You know how it works , right? People don't get angry , dude - they get even. Honesty, peace , integrity are reserved for peace agreements. Isn't that what human history is all about , hmmm?
P.S- Someone comb Paddy's hair and get Trishna a new wardrobe. Trishna's name needs to be changed to Miss.Fashion Faux Pas. Oopsie! Bitchy much? Ah , well. Abb main hamesha to pyaari pyaari baatein nahiin kar sakti na.
Love and luck always to all,❤️
God bless everyone. 🤗
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